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Seiko's Spring Drive – a human, industrial, technological, and artisanal adventure

Seiko’s Spring Drive – a human, industrial, technological, and artisanal adventure

With its revolutionary Spring Drive, Seiko has accomplished two things: pushing the standards of ‘mechanical’ precision even farther, and competing (...)

History never ends

History never ends

We remember that, a few years ago, an American essayist, Francis Fukuyama, predicted the ‘end of history’. In his opinion, the fall of (...)

Green with envy

Green with envy

Everyone knows what glamour is, but it is one of those difficult things to define.

LAKIN@LARGE - The Prince and the strippers

LAKIN@LARGE - The Prince and the strippers

It’s been an odd few weeks. I seem to have been in a dozen places at the same time and in none of them really long enough to discover the journalists’ Holy (...)

The challenges of indexing

The challenges of indexing

Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, AskJeeves, and even Baidu (a leading search engine in China) are among the many names from the four corners of (...)

Richard Mille – doing things his way

Richard Mille – doing things his way

Richard Mille watches are very technical, high performance machines that have taken the world by storm. I went to the Richard Mille during the spring (...)

Hong Kong's International Airport retailer – Master of Time

Hong Kong’s International Airport retailer – Master of Time

A joint venture between The Nuance Group (the No. 1 airport retailer worldwide) and The A.S. Watson Group, Nuance-Watson (HK) Limited is the leading (...)

Musical and mechanical

Musical and mechanical

A world first: under the brand name of Mermod Frères, the Swiss music box manufacturer, Reuge, is presenting a musical (...)

Bulgari, where Italian culture meets the culture of watchmaking

Bulgari, where Italian culture meets the culture of watchmaking

To what can be attributed Bulgari’s success in the domain of timekeeping?

Market Focus Ukraine

Market Focus Ukraine

They say that we live in a constant state of political crisis… and we cannot deny that this is true.

Ladies' mechanicals: will the girls catch on?

Ladies’ mechanicals: will the girls catch on?

Most women love having the best, after all why have crystals when you can have diamonds, why have plastic when you can have leather, why have a (...)

An interview with Jack Mitchell – retailer and bestselling author

An interview with Jack Mitchell – retailer and bestselling author

Jack Mitchell is the Chairman and CEO of Mitchells, Richards and Marshs, an eight generation family business which owns and manages three upper-end (...)

The year of the sports watch

The year of the sports watch

The sports watch roundup after BaselWorld and SIHH is assigned to me because I happen to be the ‘sportiest’ journalist on the Europa Star masthead (though (...)

Holy Horology

Holy Horology

BASELWORLD REPORT

Everything began by a ‘mass’ or ‘service’ on Tuesday April 10, the day before the opening of BaselWorld. At the end of the day, a small el-egant crowd gathered (...)

Rethinking the online luxury experience

Rethinking the online luxury experience

The ever so popular stigma attached to the Internet, in regards to luxury goods brands, is that presence online will undeniably cheapen the brands (...)

Thanks to Timex, Vincent Bérard launches Luvorène 1

Thanks to Timex, Vincent Bérard launches Luvorène 1

We’ve all seen it… the race to create very haut de gamme mechanical products that has been agitating the Swiss watch industry for the last few (...)

Mechanical movement trends from people in the know

Mechanical movement trends from people in the know

In today's watchmaking world, movement manufacturers seem to be pushing the boundaries of what is possible in terms of design, (...)

Let's talk a little about ‘us'...

Let’s talk a little about ‘us’...

In a departure from what is customary, let’s speak a little bit about us! ‘Us’ is not only Europa Star, but ‘us’ refers also to the overall watch media (...)

Faces for our 80th anniversary

Faces for our 80th anniversary

The watch industry is, above all, a vast community of men and women who work, day-in day-out, at imagining, elaborating, producing, decorating, (...)

French watchmakers find their colour at BaselWorld

French watchmakers find their colour at BaselWorld

Pioneers in the watch industry will remember the time when French companies were represented by nearly 100 exhibitors at the Basel (...)